Helen Modern is an English actress best known for her recurring role as Naomi in British sitcom Respectable on Five. She trained at the School of Drama at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University. In 2006, she starred in the eighth series of ITV1 drama Bad Girls as inmate Stella Gough, the daughter of Governing Governor Joy Masterton. As well as her featured roles in Respectable and Bad Girls, Modern has also had a recurring role in BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors (2005) as Diane Bishop, and various roles in No Angels, Wire in the Blood, The Chase and Messiah – The Harrowing with Ken Stott and Maxine Peake.